Mayor of Cadiz to host NPFL All-Star Delegation

The
Mayor of the Spanish province of Cadiz, Jose Maria Gonzalez will on Friday
receive the delegation of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) to
the Trofeo Ramon de Carranza LaLiga World Tournament.

Cadiz
is one of the provinces in the region of Andalusia which is hosting the
Carranza tourney now in it’s 62nd edition. The NPFL All-Star team is one of the
four clubs participating in the tournament which opens in the evening of Friday
and the players, technical officials and the delegation arrived in the city of
Jerez de La Fontera, a Municipality in the province of Cadiz on Thursday
afternoon. The other clubs are Malaga CF, Atletico CF and the hosts, Cadiz CF.

The
NPFL schedule will see the players train at the Ciudad Deportiva Bahia de Cadiz
at 7pm Spanish time and start their Friday with a tour of the city of Jerez de
la Fontera.

“The
Mayor of Cadiz will receive the official delegation at the Cadiz City Council
at 1.45pm Spanish time on Friday as is the tradition to extend the city’s
hospitality to every guest to the annual tournament”, disclosed Vicente Casado
who will be the delegation guide to the reception.

According
to the official program made available to the delegation, an official
tournament lunch for representatives of all the teams and the city council will
hold at the El Tamon de Roche.

Yusuf to ring
changes in All Star team

Meanwhile,
the NPFL All-Star Manager, Salisu Yusuf has down-played the commendations to
the players after their gallant loss to Valencia CF in the first match of the
LaLiga tour which held Wednesday night at the Alzira Stadium in Valencia. He
said lesson had been learnt from the match and changes will be made to the
strategy.

“We
had to adopt a match plan to contain the Valencia side knowing that this was
the first time most of our players were playing a game outside the country. Our
boys just played to our tactical strategy, but generally, they have done well”.

“Going
forward, we have to approve our belief to attack, when the opponent had the
ball when we were supposed to press, we gave them long time especially in the
second area. We have learnt our lessons and in the next game, we change a
little bit of the strategy”, Yusuf said after the match.

The
NPFL All-Star will at 8pm Nigerian time file out against Malaga FC in the
second game of the Carranza tourney on Friday. The first match is between Cadiz
CF and Atletico Madrid.